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There was concern about a significant slump in the number of teenagers studying foreign languages at GCSE today, as pupils broke another record for the number of top grades overall. ...

NEAR LODEVE, France _ The Dalai Lama inaugurates a Buddhist Temple in the south of France and meets Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French first lady. VIENNA, Austria _ The Nuclear Suppliers ...

The United States and Poland signed a deal on Wednesday to station parts of a U.S. missile defense shield on Polish soil, drawing a sharp response from Moscow. The deal ...

Nearly 21 years after opening Jake's on Main Street in Manayunk, Bruce Cooper is within days of rolling out the far more casual Cooper's Brick Oven Wine Bar next door. ...

PRAGUE, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Czech central bank board member Robert Holman said on Thursday he would not rule out one more 25 basis point interest rate cut by the ...

Major violence in Georgia had ceased, but on the morning of our visit to the Georgian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty there was still much news to cover with ...

The date was Aug. 21, 1968. It was a Tuesday night. As I did on most other nights that summer, I joined three of my journalist colleagues to listen to ...

As the Czech Republic remembers Russian troops rolling in to Prague 40 years ago today, parallels might be drawn with the present situation in Georgia. This summer's Russian invasion of ...

Correspondent Michael Jordan compares the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia with the Russian incursion into Georgia with csmonitor.com's Pat Murphy. Bratislava, Slovakia - Before the 1989 photo of a Chinese ...

Today is Wednesday, August 20th, the 233rd day of 2008. There are 133 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 20th, 1968, the Soviet Union and ...